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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Larry feel as if he had been a part of even though he was not?
(a) Sid and Charity's courtship
(b) World War I
(c) The Stock Market Crash
(d) World War II

2. Where do Larry and Sally go on Friday night?
(a) The theater
(b) The movies
(c) Sid and Charity's home
(d) Out to dinner

3. Where are Larry and Sally driving to?
(a) Wisconsin
(b) Montana
(c) New Mexico
(d) Massachusetts

4. Who is Charity's husband?
(a) Sid
(b) John
(c) Mark
(d) Clay

5. What is Larry doing as Part 1: Chapter 9 begins?
(a) Monitoring Sally's contraction
(b) Teaching a class
(c) Writing a book review
(d) Taking a walk

6. Where does Larry take Sally?
(a) To church
(b) The hospital
(c) To Charity's house
(d) The clinic

7. Who does Sally talk to when Larry is working?
(a) Her landlady
(b) Her neighbor
(c) The butcher
(d) Charity

8. Who awakens at the vacation house as the story begins?
(a) Lou
(b) Larry
(c) Sid
(d) Charity

9. What was Sid's area of study before switching to English?
(a) Biology
(b) Art
(c) Economics
(d) Geology

10. How did Larry's parents die?
(a) An infectious disease
(b) In a plane crash
(c) In a car accident
(d) In a boating accident

11. What has Charity's father been working on for the past ten years?
(a) A mural
(b) Cabinets
(c) A book
(d) A boat

12. Where does Charity's family live?
(a) New York
(b) Battell Pond
(c) Kennebunkport
(d) Cambridge

13. What concerns Sally about her appearance?
(a) Her shoes need polished
(b) She needs a haircut
(c) Her dress isn't right
(d) She has a run in her stocking

14. What does Charity hand out to the guests?
(a) Songbooks
(b) Coats
(c) Martinis
(d) Invitations

15. What major event has just occurred as the chapter begins?
(a) Sally gets a new job at the college
(b) Charity has just had her baby
(c) Sid has bought a new house
(d) Charity opens a music store

Short Answer Questions

1. What good news arrives for Larry?

2. What year is it when the novel opens?

3. What is Charity's mother reading to a group of children when he arrives?

4. What emotional event does Larry experience?

5. How is Charity's mother characterized?

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